dinesh.guntha
31st January 2012 09:06 UTC

How run bat file with arguments using nsis
Hi All,

ExpandEnvStrings $0 %COMSPEC%
nsExec::ExecToStack "D:\dinesh\jdk7samples\JavaApplication2\dist\jasypt.bat" "$db_password_state"

I am running this for the batch file but it is not running any one can help.

MSG
31st January 2012 10:59 UTC

You're not using $0...

Anders
31st January 2012 11:18 UTC

Your quoting is also wrong, the nsExec readme has a very clear example:

nsExec::ExecToStack [OPTIONS] '"PATH" param1 param2 paramN'

dinesh.guntha
1st February 2012 12:57 UTC

Thanks for helping.
It is working , i used this statment
ExecWait '"D:\dinesh\jdk7samples\JavaApplication2\dist\Jasypt.bat" "$db_password_state" "$INSTDIR\jre6\pass.txt"'

MSG
1st February 2012 16:16 UTC

I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't work for users who've set 'Edit' as the default operation to .bat files.

Anders
2nd February 2012 09:55 UTC

Originally posted by MSG
I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't work for users who've set 'Edit' as the default operation to .bat files.

Lloigor
4th February 2012 17:57 UTC

If you need to execute with cmd.exe, you can use:
ExecWait `"$SYSDIR\cmd.exe" /c "D:\dinesh\jdk7samples\JavaApplication2\dist\Jasypt.bat" "$db_password_state" "$INSTDIR\jre6\pass.txt"`

There's also this simple macro: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/CmdExec
It uses cmd.exe to execute a command and its parameters, with working dir, optional dospause, stayinprompt and execwait:

${CmdWait} "" `"D:\dinesh\jdk7samples\JavaApplication2\dist\Jasypt.bat" "$db_password_state" "$INSTDIR\jre6\pass.txt"`

MSG
5th February 2012 09:42 UTC

Lloigor: You should use COMSPEC, not cmd.exe.

Lloigor
6th February 2012 02:16 UTC

Yes, you're right.. macro updated.